Dangerous to drive. If you have chest pain or sever shortness of breath, you don't know how severe it can get or how fast. Suppose you were driving (even with a passenger): if you suddenly had a heart attack or you couldn't breathe, you could lose control of the car and get into an accident potentially causing more injury to yourself and others. In the ambulance, you are constantly monitored for any problems.

Hb 8.8 g/dL = anemia. most commonly due to blood (& thus iron) loss. The body recycles the iron & protein (globin) within hemoglobin when RBCs rupture/die (after ~3 months) inside the body. Only the heme ring of hemoglobin is not recycled, is released as bilirubin (yellow), then bound & excreted into bile by the liver dells (else become jaundiced). Iron likely low but 4=no meaning without units. Dyspnea is c/w anemia.
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Anemic? If your iron is low enough to make you anemic (low blood count), your heart will work harder to deliver oxygen to your body with a faster and more forceful beat. Thais may also make you short of breath. The chest pain may not be related. .
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Different locations. A mammogram does not affect the heart, because the breast is on the outside of the chest, the heart is on the inside of the chest, and the x-ray is not taken through the chest. A patient can contact her primary care doctor, if she coincidentally has some symptoms appearing after getting a mammogram.
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Trauma. Since a lot of pressure is applied to the chest cage during a mammogram, you might have sustained some trauma in the process (even more pressure is applied when the breast tissue is cystic or dense). I wonder if your shortness of breath is from anxiety over the chest pain. Try heating pad +/- NSAID and see if these helps If your SOB persists or worsens, best to see your doctor.
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Hb 8.8 g/dL = anemia. most commonly due to blood (& thus iron) loss. The body recycles the iron & protein (globin) within hemoglobin when RBCs rupture/die (after ~3 months) inside the body. Only the heme ring of hemoglobin is not recycled, is released as bilirubin (yellow), then bound & excreted into bile by the liver dells (else become jaundiced). Iron likely low but 4=no meaning without units. Dyspnea is c/w anemia.
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Anemic? If your iron is low enough to make you anemic (low blood count), your heart will work harder to deliver oxygen to your body with a faster and more forceful beat. Thais may also make you short of breath. The chest pain may not be related. .
Read more...

Different locations. A mammogram does not affect the heart, because the breast is on the outside of the chest, the heart is on the inside of the chest, and the x-ray is not taken through the chest. A patient can contact her primary care doctor, if she coincidentally has some symptoms appearing after getting a mammogram.
Read more...

Trauma. Since a lot of pressure is applied to the chest cage during a mammogram, you might have sustained some trauma in the process (even more pressure is applied when the breast tissue is cystic or dense). I wonder if your shortness of breath is from anxiety over the chest pain. Try heating pad +/- NSAID and see if these helps If your SOB persists or worsens, best to see your doctor.
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